Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I don't study; I create.

The tyrant’s formula for every genocide since the beginning of time: differentiate, divide, destroy.

First character, then ability.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the football field.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.